In her first year as head of the Buffett Institute, Deborah Cohen talks us through the role of global affairs at Northwestern, in Chicago, and beyond.

The number of people experiencing high levels of acute food insecurity more than doubled last year compared to 2019.

As of 2021, China owned less than 1% of all foreign-held land in the U.S. Canada, by contrast, held more than the entire area of Vermont and New Hampshire combined.

Cohort, 2021, Industry, Banking & Finance, Sector, Private Sector, Kay Fillingham is a risk management professional with experience providing strategic advice and analysis to international organizations, government institutions, and the financial sector. She served in a range of national security...

Cohort, 2020, Industry, Business & Consulting, Sector, Private Sector, Jenna Anderson specializes in advising global industrial goods corporations on strategic issues and in developing cutting-edge marketing, sales, and pricing solutions. She actively worked on turning around global automotive co...

Cohort, 2015, Industry, Government, Policy, & Public Affairs, Sector, Academia, Roseanna Ander serves as the founding executive director of the University of Chicago Crime Lab, which was launched in the spring of 2008 in partnership with the City of Chicago. In the years following, she was appoin...

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America's diplomats are still critical for US foreign policy, but the foreign service must become more flexible to engage the next generation and solve today's problems, our guests argue. What would change look like?